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Media Mentions

Our faculty are frequently called upon to inform critical issues facing the world today. See the latest faculty and school mentions in the press.

  • Developing cities for the old and young
    10/11/17

    Urban planning students have developed a plan to help Erie County prepare for rapidly aging population.

  • Architecture critics to speak at Martin House
    10/9/17
    An article reports that Robert Shibley, dean of UB’s School of Architecture and Planning, will moderate a panel discussion featuring three architecture critics who will discuss the relationship between the media and architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright’s historic place in the field of architectural writing, and the current state of architectural criticism at an event Friday at the Martin House’s Greatbatch Pavilion.
  • Terra cotta twist on the mundane faculty mailbox
    10/9/17
    Faculty mailboxes typically don’t generate much excitement. But when they’re in a building that’s on the National Register of Historic Places, and that’s home to an architecture school that has a reputation for “making,” only the best, designed in-house, will do.
  • UB Faculty Mailboxes – From Mundane to Marvelous
    10/7/17
    An article on Buffalo Rising reports UB partnered with Boston Valley Terra Cotta to create inspirational faculty mailboxes in the School of Architecture and Planning, the result of a series of design-build competitions taking place over the next few years, and quotes Robert Shibley, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. “The mailbox competition, with the visionary partnership of Boston Valley Terra Cotta, is an emphatic opening statement of what’s possible when you combine teaching with practice,” he said.
  • Public invited to hear progress on solar-powered Canalside carousel
    9/23/17
    An article about a presentation on Sept. 30 by the Buffalo Heritage Carousel to give an update on its progress to bring a solar-powered carousel to Canalside reports participants will include Martha Bohm, assistant professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning.
  • UB’s award-winning GRoW Home is just about ready to settle in
    9/22/17
    BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo’s nationally recognized GRoW Home is getting closer to being ready to meet its new neighbors.
  • Communities of Excellence mark two years of impact
    9/19/17
    It was show-and-tell time for UB’s Communities of Excellence last week as members of the research institutes that have been impacting our world for the past two years gathered for their annual progress review.
  • What do hospitals do in a hurricane? Use their own emergency plans
    9/14/17

    With Hurricane Irma leading to massive closures - including hospitals - urban planning professor Daniel B. Hess, an expert on emergency planning infrastructure, explores the intensive work that goes into hospital planning for catastrophic events.

  • UB architecture school presents "Border Crossing" talk
    9/13/17
    An article reports talks by architects, designers, urban planners and researchers will be held as part of the “Border Crossing” series this fall at the UB School of Architecture and Planning.
  • Camp Neighborhood Development
    9/13/17
    Students took everyday items - plywood palettes and garbage totes - and turned them into neighborhood beatification projects for their own communities through a Center for Urban Studies summer camp program.
  • Five Architects on the One Building They Wish Had Been Preserved
    9/12/17
    An article in the Smithsonian about America’s lost structures includes a piece by Kerry Traynor, clinical associate professor of urban and regional planning, who laments the loss of Buffalo’s Humboldt Parkway, which was torn up in the 1950s to make way for the Kensington Expressway. “The new highway displaced families, divided neighborhoods by race and income and caused property values to plummet,” she writes.
  • Remembering America’s lost buildings
    9/8/17

    Preservation efforts must be galvanized; they require mobilization, time and resources. Preservation planner and UB professor Kerry Traynor was one of five architecture experts who answered the question: What’s one American structure you wish had been saved?